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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the payment the Roman soldiers received called a salary?

2. What the area of Bohemia now called?

3. What fish needs to be salted immediately or it will go bad?

4. What famous drilling technique became the most advance drilling technique for seven or eight centuries?

5. In which country is Salzburg a town?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Roquefort cheese made?

2. How did salt become the foundation of the commercial empire in Venice?

3. Why was salt in such high demand in Britain?

4. How did Christopher Columbus cause the decline of Venice?

5. How did the people of Parma make their ham?

6. In what way can American history be described as a constant struggle over salt?

7. How did the Basques discover cod?

8. Why were the Basques different from other Europeans?

9. How did salt become one of the first mediums of exchange?

10. In what way was meat an essential part of central Europe rather than salt?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is the Dead Sea so important to Israeli industry? Why could the Dead Sea soon disappear?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss elements of the narrative structure; Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's themes?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the author's writing style. How would you describe the author's writing style? What kind of vocabulary does he use? What meaning does the author's style give to the story?

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